Cannes Film Festival
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Daily | Cannes 2015 | Fernando León de Aranoa’s A PERFECT DAY
Tim Robbins and Benicio Del Toro in ‘A Perfect Day’ “Spanish writer-director Fernando León de Aranoa makes a respectable English-language debut with A Perfect Day, …
Daily | Cannes 2013 | Maïwenn’s MON ROI
Emmanuelle Bercot and Vincent Cassel in ‘Mon roi’ “Mon roi, directed and co-written by Maïwenn (that is, filmmaker and actor Maïwenn Le Besco) is an …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Todd Haynes’s CAROL
Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett in ‘Carol’ We may see some fine-tuning in the second and later rounds, but most of the first reviews out …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Arnaud Desplechin’s MY GOLDEN DAYS
Quentin Dolmaire and Lou Roy-Lecollinet in ‘My Golden Days’ “‘Life is strange,’ Paul Dedalus declares more than once in Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days,” begins …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Natalie Portman’s A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS
‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ We begin with Tim Grierson, freshly appointed senior US critic for Screen International: “A minor-key drama about a mother …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Naomi Kawase’s AN
Nagase Masatoshi and Uchida Kyara in ‘An’ Naomi Kawase’s An is “a cloyingly sentimental yarn of an elderly pastry chef transforming lives around her through …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Index
Ingrid Bergman, the face of the 68th edition The links will take you to reviews and, when available, trailers, clips and interviews. Titles will be …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Gus Van Sant’s THE SEA OF TREES
‘The Sea of Trees’ “Whatever variety of trees grow in Japan’s infamous Aokigahara—otherwise known as the Suicide Forest—American director Gus Van Sant‘s lethally tedious new …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Asif Kapadia’s AMY
Amy Winehouse “Asif Kapadia’s documentary Amy tells the sad and, it would appear, inevitably tragic story of the late jazz singer Amy Winehouse framed entirely …
Daily | Cannes 2015 | Woody Allen’s IRRATIONAL MAN
‘Irrational Man’ “After Alfred Hitchcock and his Gallic disciple, Claude Chabrol, has any filmmaker devoted more screen time to contemplating the mechanics of the ‘perfect’ …